Use of AI on the MakeCode Forum

Alright I think we all can tell Human art won by a landslide.

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wow Pixel F̷̨̨̛̪̩̺͍̮̞̺̮͉͇͍̟͋̽̈́͊̍̅͊̈̂̍̄̌́̅̓͛̐̓͗͘͝͝ighter 2 is my favourite game!
the MakeCode Community Forum is truly beautiful :smiley:

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Yeah, was a huge improvement from the original! Much better than Pixel Smash! (play along)

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Remember when Pixel Fighter 2 made Sony and Nintendo go Bankrupt?

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lol yeah! heck of a game that is! espacially the… errr… PALLETE!! yes, reeally nice

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Oh yeah don’t get me started on the movie based on it that was made that made Disney go bankrupt

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i feel like the last one is supposed to be an accelerometer, and that second icon next to the controller is, i dunno, firefox?

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Yeah, I just loved the color “Green” that they invented for the game

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So… First of all, this is all just my opinion, you do not have to share this opinion. The main reason I dislike “AI”, is that it is not artificial intelligence. It is just algorithms to spew random stuff out in a predictable but incredibly inefficient way. The energy usage is astronomical. Do you even know why tech companies are pushing for “Ai”, even if it is detrimental to the worth of their product? People somehow have this opinion, that if companies are not using it they aren’t relevant. The reason why all these tech billionaires pushed for this technology is not because they thought they could make money, it is because they had a bunch of leftover graphics cards from bitcoin mining. I do agree that image generators are kind of interesting to play with, but I think it is disgusting how the copyright laws have been applied to them. “I want to train my ai model” is not an excuse to pirate everything anybody has ever created. Laws need to apply to everyone, or not at all. Not to mention how bad at actually making art Ai is. I have seen too many people use LLMs to write their work for them, and I feel sorry for them. They will not get far in life by cheating at every turn.
Sorry for this rant, I know this topic is now over a week old and I am a little late to the party.
To summarise:

  1. Ai is literally random and huge energy wastage
  2. Not very useful to society as a whole
  3. Pushed because billionaires had spare graphics cards
  4. Aforementioned billionaires get to pirate everything in existence
  5. Allows people to cheat themselves out of a better life later
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Exactly what I think of it like is google 2.0

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imo its not completely useless, we can use it for good too! but yes, many use AI completely wrongly and, what i think of is:

  1. AI is artificial, has NO ORIGINALITY WHATSOEVER, and thats annoying
  2. AI is just rearranging the Internet into a response, again, no originality
  3. AI isn’t self sufficient, it can’t learn itself, AI feeding on AI = gibberish!
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AI is so annoying! Look! There’s a new user that just replies to posts with AI! It doesn’t even make sense!

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I don’t understand why people are using ai for that of all thing

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just flag the posts and move on

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one more piece? one piece? bummm can we get much- sorry. but i get it. ai art sucks, and removes jobs

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can the mods please talk to that user if that hasnt been done?
i dont want ai on the forums or in makecode at all, just raw coding and passion

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Don’t worry, it has.

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Thanks mods! Really helps to know that this forum has y’all!

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I agree. That’s how you learn, by copying and seeing what works.

If you have an idea of a game but don’t know how to “say” that game idea in a code language, AI does help and can teach you a new language on the way. Just don’t ask it to generate ideas for you, because that’s your job!

I only just saw this topic and I’m so glad it was brought up.

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Hey all, as mentioned earlier in the thread this one’s getting a bit out of hand / leading to many posts being off topic, which has been taking up disproportionate amounts of time in approving posts (/ rejecting and explaining why).

This post is getting locked, pending replies will not be accepted, apologies if you had any in there. This is a forum intended for discussing makecode / games / etc, so please remember to focus primarily on that in extended discussions.

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